JoDaviess County IL Archives Obituaries.....Manion, James May 29, 1907
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Galena Weekly Gazette, after May 29, 1907
JAMES MANION DEAD. Former Jo Daviess County Man Dies in Minnesota. James 
Manion at one time a resident of Jo Daviess county but for the past four years 
a citizen of St. Cloud, Minnesota, died at his home at that place Wednesday at 
the advanced age of eighty three years. The deceased was a native of Ireland. 
Upon coming to the United States, he lived for several years in Hanover 
township, removing in 1885 to Ramsen, Ia. He made his home at Ramsen for about 
eight years, when he again moved to Hanover township where he lived up to 
about four years ago when the family moved to St. Cloud, where he lived up to 
the time of his death. Mr. Manion is survived by ten children, his wife having 
died thirty years ago. The children are: Mrs. Daniel McCormick [Mary Manion], 
of Iona, Minn.; Mrs. David McCormick [Elizabeth Manion], of St. Cloud, Minn.; 
Mrs. J. F. [John F.] Slayne [Catharin Manion], of Jasper, Minn.; Mrs. Rufus 
Amos [Metildie/Matilda Manion], of Aylward, Ia.; Mrs. Myron Richie [Helen 
Agnes Manion], of Napa, Calif.; Miss Bessie [Bridget] Manion, of LaMars, Ia.; 
John, of Pierre, S.D.; J. H. [James H.] and Michael, of Jasper, Minn.; and 
Thomas of Dickenson, N.D. A son, Peter, died at Buffalo, N.Y. five years ago.

Additional Comments:
It is most fortunate that this document was obtained by my parents when they 
visited Galena, Illinois, in January 1996, in search of information about my 
mother's grandmother, Helen Agnes Manion Richie, and Helen Agnes' parents and 
siblings. My parents were told that nearly all of the records pertaining to 
Galena's earlier residents were burned in a fire. However, my father went 
downtown in Galena to try to find something, anything that might shed some 
light on Helen Agnes's life before she married Myron Richie in Deadwood, 
Territory of the Dakotas, and moved to Napa, California, to have their family 
and live out their days. My father cannot recall where in Galena he found this 
newspaper clipping, but there were stacks and stacks of newspapers everywhere, 
and he told the young man who was charged with sorting through them what he 
was seeking and the dates he thought were pertinent. The young man then 
selected a stack of old newspapers and gave it to my father saying, "Go sit 
down and look in these." And Eureka! My father found James Manion's obituary. 
From the obituary, my mother was able to track down the whereabouts of all of 
his children, although she had been unable to do so for the previous ten years.

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